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Carmen MARISCAL
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« Carmen Mariscal examines various aspects of the body-physical, emotional, spiritual and cultural-addressing her subject both as a transient and everlasting entity. But it is not just the corporeal body that interests her. She sets out to interrogate the body in its historical formation; perhaps her principal subject is closest to home, her family. Here she concerns herself with fragility and emotions. The feeling of obliteration she obtains through the transparent quality of the glass onto where here images are printed and the subtle ambiguity created by the reflection of images in a mirror are just two of the ways in which she articulates her desired sense of modesty. It is in a psychological abyss of portraits and self-portraits that her aim to generate a loss of reality becomes apparent. Here we encounter a disassociation between the body and the spirit that is at the centre of her creative concerns as an artist. »

… fragment from The Corporeal Landscape by Christine Frérot (translated by Steven Adams)